Flora Montgomery (Flora Anne Selina Montgomery)

Biography

Grey Abbey, Ards, County Down, Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK

Theatre has been as prevalent in Flora's career as film and television. She won the Irish Times Best Actress Award for her role as the lead in Strindberg's Miss Julie. Other 'classic' roles include Yelena in Chekov's Uncle Vanya, Ophelia in Hamlet and Katherina in Taming of The Shrew. She has worked with many contemporary playwrights such as Neil LaBute who directed her in his monologue 'Bash'. She performed in the world premier of 'The Reckoning' a two-hander with Jonathan Pryce, and also in the award winning Dinner, both in the West End. Read more... the Oscar winner Frederic Raphael's Glittering Prizes. Flora grew up by the shores of Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland. She was educated in Belfast and London, and trained in Dublin.